How a Glendale job runs, step by step: free quote, written scope, written quote, sign-off - and the cheaper option named when there is one.
A free inspection, the design-review position checked, then a written quote.
Tell us the covering and the address. On a period Glendale property the address is the important part, because it decides whether design review applies before anything else does.
Roof and attic together, and on tile the salvageable pieces counted. That count is the difference between a relay and a replacement, which is roughly half the job.
On a designated property the Design Review Exemption has to be approved before a building permit application is accepted. Filed in that order, it is four to eight weeks. Filed the other way round, it is a month wasted.
Profile, color and texture matched to what is there. Eaves and rafter tails documented before and after, which is what a review wants to see.
Los Angeles County figures. Nothing here is a quote until we have seen the job.
Estimated, la county.
$15 - $25 per sq ft full.
Plus the review timeline.
Around $8.50 in la.
Replacement quoted per system.
This is a replacement company saying so, which is the point. The most expensive mistake in this market is buying the whole roof when the job was the felt underneath it.
A tile roof quoted at $30,000 to $60,000 is very often an $8,000 to $22,000 lift and relay, because clay outlives felt by decades and only the felt has failed. Somebody has to count your tile before that question can be answered.
A cracked mortar bed, a split upstand, a flashing that has parted from a wall: each is a repair. On an older property each is also the easiest thing in the world to present as a reason to strip the lot and start again.
Salvaging the original tile is what design review is most likely to pass, and it costs about half of replacing it. The two things point the same way more often than people expect.
Then a replacement is the right recommendation and we will make it. The test is not which answer you get, it is whether anybody showed you how they arrived at it.
Worth knowing before you start ringing round, and worth factoring into anything with a deadline on it.
Roofs here fail quietly through a dry summer -- ultraviolet light and heat working on the covering, felt going brittle under the tile, laps loosening -- then a wind event off the Verdugos lifts whatever was already loose, and the first serious rain finds all of it at once. Every roofer in the foothills takes those calls on the same three nights.
What that means in practice: an active leak needs calling now rather than on the weekend, and a replacement tied to an escrow date needs a survey booked well before you think you need one. On a designated property, add four to eight weeks for design review before the permit application is even accepted.
A free written quote, no obligation.